The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.

Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to generate its own ...

Something enormous has been hiding inside Earth for billions of years, and scientists just got their closest look yet at what ...

NASA Psyche spacecraft Mars images from the May 15 gravity-assist flyby are now fully released, confirming all four science ...

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...

Earth’s molten outer core is critical to life on our planet. Churning some 2,900 kilometers beneath the surface, it’s a vast “sea” of liquid iron that swirls around the planet’s solid inner core. This ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe an ultra-faint galaxy called ...

Milky Way photography goes beyond capturing the stars. It becomes a way to explore remote environments, challenge physical limits, and reconnect with both nature and history.' ...

It’s not hard to see why there are so many conspiracy theories about what lies beneath our feet. The surface of the Earth – the crust – on which we live makes up a mere one per cent of the planet’s ...

Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior. Is Earth's core solid or liquid? Yes. Our planet's interior has been harder to study than the cosmos. We ...

A new global analysis of seismic data reveals widespread deformation deep within Earth’s lowest mantle, offering fresh clues about how material flows near the core–mantle boundary. Credit: ...